CBS is not out of the woods yet on Janet Jackson’s notorious Super Bowl
incident from 2004.

The U.S. Supreme Court might be reviewing the infamous “wardrobe malfunction”
case. The Federal Communications Commission filed a writ of
certiorari, requesting the Supreme Court to review the appeals court decision.

While this is a tax case, don't worry -- we won't get into the heavy tax jargon in this post. But the U.S. Virgin Islands are U.S. territories which means that there is a little more U.S. oversight on the taxation of income there.

In a case involving two officers of the U.S. Army Reserve who were deployed to Iraq, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court conviction of conspiracy.

On appeal, the defendants raised issues on the insufficiency of evidence to establish participation in the conspiracy, failure to grant a new trial in the interests of justice, and erroneous refusal to grant "use immunity" to a co-conspirator.

On Tuesday, a panel of the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals heard arguments in what’s been dubbed the “I Heart Boobies” case. This
lawsuit has it all — the First Amendment, the ACLU and “boobies.”

The case involves two female middle school students
at Easton Area Middle School. The students were suspended for wearing
breast-cancer awareness bracelets that had the words “I Heart Boobies— Keep a
Breast Foundation.”

Do numerous consecutive sentences add up to the
statutory maximum, if each prior sentence is revoked? Or does the court start
the tally over, after each revocation?

In U.S. v.
Williams, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed the prison
sentence of a woman who had been accused of bank robbery. The defendant claimed
that her sentence exceeded the statutory maximum. During the course of her
incarceration and supervised release, there had been several modifications made
to the sentence, largely due to her failure to comply with the terms of her
supervised release. As a result, the combined number of months she spent in
prison was 25 months, which she claimed was over the 24-month limit.

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